European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan AfricaAlbert S. Gérard John Benjamins Publishing, 1 janv. 1986 - 1288 pages The first major comparative study of African writing in western languages, European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa, edited by Albert S. Gérard, falls into four wide-ranging sections: an overview of early contacts and colonial developments Under Western Eyes ; chapters on Black Consciousness manifest in the debates over Panafricanism and Negritude; a group of essays on mental decolonization expressed in Black Power texts at the time of independence struggles; and finally Comparative Vistas, sketching directions that future comparative study might explore. An introductory essay stresses the millennia of writing in Africa, side by side with a richly eloquent and artistic set of vernacular oral traditions; written and oral traditions have become interwoven in adaptations of imported forms and linguistic innovations that challenge traditional high literary norms. Gérard uses the mathematical concept of fuzzy sets to explain why the focus on Black Africa has led him to set aside for future analysis the literatures produced in North Africa, which fall under the influence of Muslim civilization, as well as the diasporic literatures of the New World. Over sixty scholars from twenty-two countries contribute specialized studies of creative writing by leading authors in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries such as Achebe, Mphahlele, Ngugi, Senghor, Soyinka, and Tutuola. Critical analyses are organized primarily around regions, reflecting different colonial languages imposed through schools and other social institutions. Some authors trace the adaptation of western genres, others identify syncretism with folktales or myths. The volumes are attentive to the heterogeneity of national literatures addressed to polyethnic and multilingual populations, and they note the instrumental politics of language in newly independent states. A closing chapter, Tasks Ahead, identifies areas for future scholars to explore. |
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... poems were composed by one Captain Antonio Dias de Macedo who was born in Angola and was killed there in battle in 1648. One of these poems is preserved in a contemporary history, Cadornega's Histéria geral das guerras angolanas, a work ...
... poems were composed by one Captain Antonio Dias de Macedo who was born in Angola and was killed there in battle in 1648. One of these poems is preserved in a contemporary history, Cadornega's Histéria geral das guerras angolanas, a work ...
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... Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, here quoted from The Poems of Phillis Wheatley, ed. Julian D. Mason, Jr. (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1966). 37 Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African. T ...
... Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, here quoted from The Poems of Phillis Wheatley, ed. Julian D. Mason, Jr. (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1966). 37 Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African. T ...
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... poems and the haste in which they were written clearly shows in the finished product. Dempster also writes frequently about Africa: Wake up, Africa, the van Is moving to let slumber end today, And darkness and serfdom be past; Lift up ...
... poems and the haste in which they were written clearly shows in the finished product. Dempster also writes frequently about Africa: Wake up, Africa, the van Is moving to let slumber end today, And darkness and serfdom be past; Lift up ...
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... poems and borrowed language of his early poetry, substituting for them a masterly use of free verse and a totally new approach to imagery. Most significant of all, he was, suddenly (or so it seems), in possession of a subtle, rich and ...
... poems and borrowed language of his early poetry, substituting for them a masterly use of free verse and a totally new approach to imagery. Most significant of all, he was, suddenly (or so it seems), in possession of a subtle, rich and ...
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... poems, but also gives them their greater appeal. Ranaivo's poems are variations on a form, but Rabéarivelo's poetry creates a vision of human experience. . Madagascar has probably had very little influence on the poetry of the African ...
... poems, but also gives them their greater appeal. Ranaivo's poems are variations on a form, but Rabéarivelo's poetry creates a vision of human experience. . Madagascar has probably had very little influence on the poetry of the African ...
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